Marseilles France

1 Paris, France Aug 3, 92 2 Marseilles, France Aug 6, 92 3 Nice, France Aug 8, 92 4 Savona, Italy Aug 11, 92 5 Milan, Italy Aug 12, 92 6 Zurich, Switzerland Aug 14, 92 7 Frankfurt, Germany Aug 17, 92

... decided to spend the night before here and check the town out. I was told by a French girl back in Australia to give Marseilles a miss and instead check out Aix en Provence. I now understand and agree with this advice. Marseilles isn't too bad and ...

... backpacker (read - messy/daggy) attire so we laughed at them for a while and then on to a restaurant. Our main purpose in Marseilles was to eat Bouilliabase (dad may shout if that is wrong) and that certainly was the highlight! It was a mammoth meal and ...

... morning I have a tough decision, do I go back to brussels to visit Marie-Christine or do I stay in suthern france and visit avignon and Nice using Marseilles as my base camp... I go to the bathroom and the instant I open the bathroom door, it is ...

Up early, on the bus for a long drive through Marseilles out to Casellet and Bandon. Marseilles is the second largest city of France, and the largest port of the Med. On and on we drove and then we climbed up into Provence to a medieval town. So ...

... eat/sleep/sit there. Not so good if it is an overnight journey as you're not likely to get any real sleep. Tunis to Marseilles is a 23 hour journey, with the boat travelling at maybe 20 knots (miles) per hour, so there is plenty of time to lay ...

... to see with Sven in tow. But we decided that a day trip from La Begude would be worth it. Our first impressions of Marseilles, besides bad traffic, were rather positive. It is a large city, and not very clean. But we didn't have much trouble finding ...

... down a street. the public transport was easy to use, but it was still a considerable walk from the bus stop. i also went diving at les calanques, the beautiful limestone cliffs off the coast of Marseilles. this concludes my trip to France. ...

... , with just us and the tour guide. That night we took it easy, I wasn't that hungry and Eric wanted to try the famous Marseilles dish, boulibaisse which is a fish soup. It sounded good but like I said I wasn't too hungry and it was expensive, besides that ...